Category - Seamus Heaney

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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

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The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

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The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

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I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.

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Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

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To encounter ‘Beowulf’ is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

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My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

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Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

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I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

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My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

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My passport’s green.

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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

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